Why and when would you choose a more 'heavy-going' framework

Keir Lavelle

25 Feb, 2013 01:40 PM

Hi everyone, abit of an open question this one but i've been
using Slim for awhile and incorporated it into a couple of projects
recently and I think it's fantastic, I drop in twig as my
templating engine, idiorm for my DBAL, Swiftmailer for processing
emails and I have a 'Home brewed' route for passing a route as
controller/method/args, and I'm just wondering are my applications
losing anything in terms of performance or security by not using a
framework such as Laravel? Admittedly the projects are relatively
small - the most recent has ~12 controllers, however I can't see
maintainability being detrimented by use of a well planned Slim app
structure anymore than if it was built using something like
Laravel?

Your feedback would be much appreciated, namely when it's
advisable to look at a more immersive framework, or can I be safe
in teh knowledge that if I plan effectively Slim is as good as
any?